Is the world condemned to autocracy? U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s famous justification for asking Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917—“the world must be made safe for democracy”—has long been criticized as having pushed the United States down the slippery slope of internationalism and a century of ill-advised foreign interventions. Often left out is how little democracy there was in the world at the time. Liberal democracies were the exception, and the few that existed aside from the